National rep. tasks and future projects?

Dear friends,

I have been preoccupied with my old project POOLS which ended its funded period on October 1st – after which we have had to compile a final report with several copies of all outcomes. A rather time consuming affaire.

I can now look back at all the tasks that have been neglected in the past months. Fortunately my conscience is very good because my memory is bad - In relation to Eurocall I simply cannot remember what I actually “promised” to deliver, it was something about a national report, but in which context? And (a dreaded word) deadline?

I am heading for a one weeks vacation on Saturday so with some luck I’ll not learn about my tasks until after that;-)

The POOLS project is over (at least the money is gone) but the partnership is now growing and becoming a network of grass root practitioners (that is my hope). I am now thinking of future EU funding possibilities for setting up a network in partnership with Eurocall, i.e. Eurocall could make some money from assisting the network. POOLS will never be a competitor to Eurocall as the aim is language teaching in general with a focus on methodology, and POOLS could become a Eurocall asset as a feeding network to Eurocall. Comments appreciated!-)

You can read about POOLS here: http://www.languages.dk/
You can read about POOLS members here: http://www.languages.dk/membership/index.html
And finally you can join the network here: http://www.languages.dk/membership/enroll/index.html

Best regards
Kent Andersen

All Eurocall 2007 recordings now online

Hi All! In case you haven't already heard, all the recordings are now available on the conference website. On top of the keynotes + the panel, there are more than fifty recorded parallel sessions. Now, there is a chance to listen to the ones you missed during the conference :)

Have a good weekend!

Peppi

Recommended books for George

Here are some suggestions. I’ve left out Warschauer, Levy and Chapelle as they probably already are on your list. Also any books by James Paul Gee and Allan Luke are worth checking. From the language learning perspective James Lantolf, Gordon Wells and David Block (especially “The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition”)are on my must read list. Mark Prensky has also written some interesting stuff on the new learner generation.

Beatty, Ken. 2003. Teaching and Researching Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Applied Linguistics in Action Series. London: Pearson Education.
Benson, P & Voller, P. 1998. Autonomy and Independence in Language Learning. London: Longman.
Cope, Bill & Kalantzis, Mary. (Eds.) 2000. Multiliteracies: literacy learning and the design of social futures. London: Routledge.
Cuban, Larry. 2001. Oversold and Underused. Computers in the Classrooms. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Felix, Uschi. 2003. Language Learning Online – Towards Best Practice.
Fullan, Michael. 2001. The New Meaning of Educational Change. 3rd edition. New York: Teachers College Press.
Gee, James Paul. 2004. Situated language and learning. A critique of traditional schooling. Routledge.
Hargreaves, Andy. 2003. Teaching in the knowledge society. Open university press.
Snyder, Ilana. 2002. (Ed.) Silicon Literacies. Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age. Literacies Series. New York, London: Routledge.


I'll keep adding your suggestions to this posting, I think it is most user-friendly that way.

CALL bibliography: http://www.eurocall-languages.org/resources/bibliography/index.html
Egbert, Joy & Petrie, Gina. 2005. CALL Research Perspectives. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Incorporate

Peppi

Welcome to our new blog!

Hello and welcome to the natreps' new blog. Let's see how this will help us keep in touch in between conferences. I am happy to see you all here!